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Occupation : the Harvard living wage sit-ins / by Maple Razsa and Pacho Velez.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Razsa, Maple.
- Series:
- Filmakers Library online
- Filmakers library online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harvard University--Employees--Salaries, etc.
- Harvard University.
- Cost and standard of living--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Cost and standard of living.
- Living wage movement--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Living wage movement.
- Wages--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Wages.
- Employees.
- Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Genre:
- Documentary.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (43 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- In the last decades, colleges around the country have faced student protests over the wages paid maintenance employees. Harvard, the richest university in the world, is no exception. While its endowments have tripled in the last fifteen years, it has outsourced jobs, slashed wages and benefits for its lowest paid workers, and resisted efforts to unionize. Appalled at Harvard's practices, the students galvanized into action. They proposed a Living Wage Programme, which Harvard refused to consider. After three years of peaceful protests the students occupied Masachusetts Hall, site of the President s office. Soon a "tent city" sprang up on campus as other students joined the campaign. Gradually the workers joined the protest, no longer afraid to lose their jobs. With the threat of wildcat strikes and civil disobedience growing, the administration was forced to negotiate. The President accepted unprecedented wage increases and established a committee to review labor policies. Consuelo, a janitor, says "Those kids are unbelievable. They are my inspiration, my heroes.".
- Notes:
- Originally released as DVD.
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2011. (Filmakers library online). Available via World Wide Web.
- OCLC:
- 747798923
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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